Quote - Well, back to the installers... I have all my base figures installed into a temp folder which I use to copy and paste them into a fresh Poser install.  I just added that temp folder as an external runtime in P8/10 and now the thumbs show up.  So it must be, as you said, a W7/Programs folder issue.  sigh

~Wolfie~

Windows 7 uses some kind of virtual folder for (data) items which have been put in the programs folder. To make it look like they are still in the right place, Windows 7 redirects references to the Program folder to the virtual folder. Unfortunately that does not always work. Sometimes programs bypass the "official" way to access folders and files. In some cases the redirection does not work and you get this problem where some part of the program thinks files are there and other parts cannot reach it. This is what apparently happens here.

The best thing is to keep all the installed items outside of the program folders - that is the recommended way since Poser 8 and prevents these kind of problems. DAZ has not updated its recommendation for installing the milennium 4 generation since it was released, so it never was adapted for Poser 8+, Windows 7  (and Vista)